Wednesday

Iranian hostage crisis = double bind

Orthodox Muslims continually put the free world in one double bind after another. In psychology, a double bind is "a situation in which a person is given conflicting cues...such that to obey one cue is to disobey the other." It is a "no win" situation, "an emotionally distressing dilemma in communication in which an individual (or group) receives two or more conflicting messages, in which one message negates the other. This creates a situation in which a successful response to one message results in a failed response to the other (and vice versa), so that the person will be automatically wrong regardless of response."

"Double binds are often utilized as a form of control without open coercion — the use of confusion makes them difficult to respond to or resist."

It is a double bind. The free world can either give up a little freedom of speech, or the economy may suffer. Damned if we do, damned if we don't. The recent rioting was another double bind: Either curb free speech or innocent people will die. It almost worked. White House officials asked Google to pull the video trailer from YouTube (Google refused) and many people would agree — this simple removal could potentially save lives in the short run.

Orthodox Muslims are involved in many projects, from altering American textbooks to supporting suicide bombers. But freedom of speech is where the conflict between Islam and the free world will be won or lost. If we lose free speech, we're done. Every encroachment, every concession, every accommodation they want to wrest from the free world will be easy once we can no longer communicate critically about Islam.

Free speech is the battleground where the future will be decided. And this is not a theoretical issue. Impeding free speech has already been successfully accomplished many times with Islamic violence. When these cartoons were published in a Danish newspaper (the Jyllands-Posten), for example, the ensuing riots resulted in the deaths of 187 people. What happened to free speech? Bruce Bawer wrote:

Not a single newspaper in Britain reprinted the cartoons. And both the Swedish and Norwegian governments provided textbook cases of cowering dhimmitude. But none of that was really a surprise. What did surprise, and disappoint, me was the American political and media establishment. Both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush condemned the Jyllands-Posten cartoons out of hand. The State Department denounced them too, and only reversed itself after getting an earful from the Danish government, one of its few allies in Iraq. In the entire United States of America, exactly one major newspaper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, reprinted the cartoons. And while the major broadcast networks, as well as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC, reported extensively on the cartoon riots, none of them ever showed the cartoons at all.

This means that by putting the free world into a double bind, Islam successfully created an accommodation to Islamic standards. To that small degree, Islamic law was established in the Western world. The West's proud tradition of free speech yielded to Islam. Why? We are vulnerable to double binds, and orthodox Muslims are exploiting that fact. Why are we vulnerable? Our collective feeling of guilt is our Achilles' heel. We must each resolve this in ourselves and then help our fellow non-Muslims resolve it, and we had better do it quickly.
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Monday

My books have answered the first question and now my new talk answers the second question.

A few months ago a man videoed two talks that I gave in Chattanooga, TN. When he asked if he could post them on You Tube, I said sure and thought that no one would watch a 45-minute talk. Wrong! In two weeks time about 51,000 people have watched the entire talk. Now it is being subtitled in German, French, and Spanish. Who knew?

This talk ties together the rise of Islam, the annihilation of classical civilization, the Dark Ages, the Islamic Golden Age, the doctrine of jihad and the psychology of the Western mind as analogous to the abused wife, all based on two large sets of data. The idea is the result of 10 years of research and it took 6 months to prepare the content and the graphics.

Friday

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey, was once the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years in Constantinople, the largest and wealthiest European city of the Middle Ages

A friend of mine sent me a small book entitled Christianity Face to Face With Islam. She knows I'm not a Christian, but she thought I would find it worth reading, and she was right. It gives an excellent overview of Islamic history and its impact on the Christian world. It was written by Robert Louis Wilken, professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia. The little book is an essay adapted from his 2008 Erasmus Lecture,

I thought Wilken was extremely charitable toward Islam, but that might make his message penetrate better with people who are skeptical of the idea that Islam is not a religion of peace. Wilken was generous toward Islam where he could be, which gives extra heft to his warnings and criticisms when he makes them.

So I thought I would recommend this book to you so you can share it with your skeptical Christian friends. Even though I have a hard copy in my hands, I cannot find any place online to buy the book. If you can find an outlet that sells the book online, please send the link to me by clicking here. Thank you.

But in the meantime you can find the article online here. The history of Islam's impact on Christianity is a good demonstration of Bill Warner's principle of Islam's annihilation of civilizations. A few quotes from Wilkin's book might whet your appetite:

By the year 750, a hundred years after the conquest of Jerusalem, at least 50 percent of the world's Christians found themselves under Muslim hegemony. In some regions, most notably North Africa, Christianity went into precipitous decline. At the time of the Arab conquest there were more than three hundred bishops in the area, but by the tenth century Pope Benedict VII could not find three bishops to consecrate a new bishop. Today there is no indigenous Christianity in the region, no communities of Christians whose history can be traced to antiquity. Though originally conquered by the sword, most of the subject peoples eventually embraced the religion of their conquerors. By a gradual process of soft coercion, Islam was able to gain the loyalty and kindle the affections of those who were subjugated and make them part of the Muslim umma — no small accomplishment.

In greater Syria — including the Holy Land, Egypt, and Iraq — the rights and privileges of Christians were limited by their legal status as dhimmis: members of a restricted and inferior minority subject to an onerous tax...

In the eleventh century, the population of Asia Minor was almost wholly Christian. By the sixteenth century, Muslims constituted 92 percent of the population. During those centuries, the Church lost most of its property, its ecclesiastical structures were dismantled, and its bishops prohibited from caring for their dioceses. At the beginning of the period, there were four hundred bishops; by the end, 97 percent had been eliminated. Because there was no centralized state, only petty rulers, a dhimmi system was never put fully into place. As Muslim institutions flourished, the Christian population fled, and the disoriented and dispirited who remained gradually adopted the religion of their masters. Today there are only tiny remnants of ancient Christian communities in Turkey...

To state the obvious: Most of the territories that were Christian in the year 700 are now Muslim. Nothing similar has happened to Islam. Christianity seems like a rain shower that soaks the earth and then moves on, whereas Islam appears more like a great lake that constantly overflows its banks to inundate new territory. When Islam arrives, it comes to stay — unless displaced by force, as it was in Spain...

Of even greater significance is the growth and establishment of Islam in southeast Asia, in the archipelago between the Bay of Bengal and the China Sea. From India, Islam spread along trade routes into the region and, by the sixteenth century, Muslims had become the dominant religion in what is today Malaysia and Indonesia. Here Islam made its way not by military conquest but peaceably, through the gradual conversion of people who had contact with Muslim traders and through the quiet labors of itinerant Sufi preachers. With Muslim growth came Muslim culture and law and, eventually, Muslim rule.

In a way that is not true of Christianity, Islam is territorial. One of Islam's most enduring innovations was that religious law became also the law of the body politic. Shari'a is more encompassing than the Church's canon law, and historically its authority depended on a community with territorial boundaries and political jurisdiction.

Thursday

The World Truth Summit interviews are underway this week. Monday, Elsa Schieder interviewed Mark Durie. It was excellent. Wednesday night she interviewed Bill Warner, which I haven't heard yet, but I'm sure it was great.

These are personal interviews rather than talking about Islam itself. How did these counterjihadists end up doing this work? What led them to reject the politically correct view of Islam? What has it been like for them? What is their personal background?

Elsa will keep all five of this week's interviews available until this Sunday, September 23rd.

An interview with Pamela Geller is tonight (Thursday). Here's how to listen: First go to this link and register (you'll see the registration form in the top right sidebar):

Tuesday

The following is ACT! for America's latest email alert. Please sign the petition and get others you know to sign it:

U.S. embassy in Cairo

Since our Egyptian and Libyan embassies were attacked we’ve seen a steady stream of statements from the Obama administration and some in Congress who blame an obscure 14 minute film for the outbreak of the violence.

This is as dangerous as it is misguided. It emboldens radical Muslims across the world and ensures that every time they feel they have a grievance they have a right to engage in attacks like these.

More apologies and more appeasement equals more violence. Plain and simple.

If you’ve had enough of this public relations campaign of apology and appeasement, please add your name to our new petition, which we will deliver to the White House and leaders of Congress.

The text of the petition is below. VISIT HERE to add your name, or click on the image above. Then FORWARD this to everyone you know!

Let your voice be heard today!!

Here's what the petition says:

We’ve Had Enough!!

Since the unjustified assaults on the U.S. embassies in Cairo and Libya, many in the Obama administration, the Congress, the media, and academia, have apologized, blamed or insinuated that a satirical film about Mohammed was the catalyst for all the violence.

We, the undersigned, know better—and we’ve had enough.

We’ve had enough of the Obama administration’s efforts to placate Islamist mobs motivated by ideology, or hatred of America, or just plain thuggery, with its repeated references to this obscure film that prior to September 11, 2012, no one had ever heard of.

We’ve had enough of the Obama administration and some Members of Congress insinuating or even implying that the violence against our embassies would not have occurred had it not been for this “offense” against Islam.

We’ve had enough of those who say a single blog post about an obscure film satirizing Islam is somehow responsible for the violence and anger raging throughout the Muslim world.

We’ve had enough of political leaders who cower in the face of the intimidation and bullying tactics of radical Muslims around the world who can never be appeased enough or accommodated enough.

We’ve had enough of the “establishment media’s” double standard, who defend satirical films and art that offend Christians and Jews as “free speech,” but condemn satire that offends Muslims as “hate speech.”

We’ve had enough of American politicians who fail to see or refuse to see the clear and present threat the Muslim Brotherhood poses to the United States.

We’ve had enough of the message of weakness coming out of Washington when what is required now is a defense of America, a defense of our values, strength, courage and resolve.

We are the silent majority in America.

We don’t riot when offended. We don’t storm embassies, kill ambassadors, or torch government buildings.

And we know that we’ve been here once before.

In 1979, we said “enough” to an economy in shambles, skyrocketing gas prices, and a president whose weakness emboldened Iranian radicals to hold Americans hostage for 444 days.

On November 6th, we will again say “enough,” just as patriotic and responsible Americans have said “enough” in the past.

And when the number of signers is large, it calls forth the principle of social proof.

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Saturday

Muslims in Germany

On the one hand, we know some Muslim women want to move to free countries to get away from Islam, and don't feel they can safely become apostates until they arrive safely in the free country. On the other hand, we have no idea what a Muslim will do when she or he arrives. Will they have ten children and teach them all to be orthodox Muslims? A British study found that second generation Muslims are more likely than their parents to be orthodox, which seems to imply that it doesn't matter if the parents are "radical" or not. It only matters that they consider themselves Muslim.

Looking around the world, we can see that the larger the percentage of Muslims in a given country, the more strongly and successfully the politically-active orthodox Muslims among them press for concessions to Islamic norms. Stopping Muslim immigration seems a sensible, obvious, self-preserving measure for a country to take, doesn't it? What do you think? Leave a comment on this article or email me and I'll post it for you.

I'm not the only one to advocate putting a stop to Muslim immigration, of course. Pim Fortuyn led one of the most consequential efforts so far to end Muslim immigration, in his case, to the Netherlands.

He said first the U.S. should stop "ideological subversion," meaning we should prevent people like the Saudis from buying their way into places where they have influence, like Middle Eastern studies on college campuses, and building mosques here that teach orthodox Islam, and so on. He said, "If you are not on ideological offense, you're going to get rolled."

Second, he said, "Unless you have real serious cultural confidence, you should not have mass Muslim immigration."

"Analyzing the problem is one thing; solving it is another. Robert Spencer’s prescriptions on what to do will rankle some and lead to his further character assassination. He is at his best when calling for the government to impose existing laws — and most gets to the point when he calls for a revival of patriotism, the self-assurance necessary to deny Islamic encroachment, white liberal guilt, and multiculturalist recriminations of the greatest nation in the history of the world. He is at his most questionable in calling on the government to 'End Muslim immigration into the United States.'"

So what do you think? Should free nations stop or limit Muslim immigration? Why? What about the heterodox Muslims? Should they be taken into consideration? Do you think it is unfair to discriminate like this?
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Elsa Schieder will be interviewing Bill Warner in the first of her teleseminar series. Here's what Bill says about it:

Bill Warner

When Elsa contacted me to do an interview I was surprised that she did not want to talk about political Islam, but instead about my personal life. I was not too agreeable about that topic, since I had never used the first person in my work. As a scientist I try to stay with the facts of Islam and do not even talk about Muslims.

She told me that she was going to interview about 20 people who are in the fight against the rise of power of political Sharia. She then played her trump card by saying that I may try to avoid publicity, but it would help the cause.

The interview with me is one of 20 being presented in the teleseminar series, which starts on September 17 at 8 PM. Five interviews will be presented that week. There will be 5 more in each of October, November and December.

Monday

Eleven years after 9/11, orthodox Islam is still on the rise all over the world, but so is freedom. The two worldviews are increasingly coming into conflict. But the free world will ultimately win because we have a built-in advantage: The power of women. Orthodox Islam keeps women down. Women are the key in more ways than you might expect.

Research has shown that corporations with women on their boards are more successful. Considerably more successful. In a summary of a recent study, April Sweazy wrote:

Despite a rough economic period, Fortune 500 companies with three or more women in board positions created a competitive advantage over companies with no women on their boards in the following three areas:

Return on Sales: 84% advantage

Return on Invested Capital: 60% advantage

Return on Equity: 46% advantage

This study was conducted on financial results of 524 public companies, which demonstrated a sustained commitment to women in leadership, as measured by the presence of women on their boards for four of the five years analyzed. Previous studies in the series have also found a connection between gender diversity on corporate boards and financial performance.

Bloomberg Business Week reported: "Shares of companies with a market capitalization of more than $10 billion and with women board members outperformed comparable businesses with all-male boards by 26 percent worldwide over a period of six years, according to a report by the Credit Suisse Research Institute, created in 2008 to analyze trends expected to affect global markets." An interesting side note here is that in another study, it was found that companies with three or more women on their boards donated — are you ready for this — twenty-eight times more than companies without women on their boards!

What is true of companies is also true of countries. Countries have more of everything when their women have more rights. Look at the countries in the world with the strongest middle class and greatest degree of freedom of expression. They all have one thing in common: Women have higher status and more rights in those countries. And look at the countries with the weakest middle class and the most censorship. Women have the lowest status and fewer rights in those countries.

Countries and companies are better off when men and women can work together. And because of our greater degree of women's rights, the free world has twice as much potential brain power as the world of submission. And it's more than that. We have women and men working together, and all they have is men. They are at a great disadvantage in creativity, perspective, mutual support, and pure intelligence. In The New York Times, Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas D. Kristof wrote:

Bill Gates recalls once being invited to speak in Saudi Arabia and finding himself facing a segregated audience. Four-fifths of the listeners were men, on the left. The remaining one-fifth were women, all covered in black cloaks and veils, on the right. A partition separated the two groups. Toward the end, in the question-and-answer session, a member of the audience noted that Saudi Arabia aimed to be one of the Top 10 countries in the world in technology by 2010 and asked if that was realistic. “Well, if you’re not fully utilizing half the talent in the country,” Gates said, “you’re not going to get too close to the Top 10.” The small group on the right erupted in wild cheering.

Historically, we have seen a steady, unrelenting increase in women's rights around the world. This will not stop. Why? Because it is a self-evident truth that women are human beings who deserve the same rights and privileges as any other human being.

To help freedom grow and to help orthodox Islam die out, we should focus on empowering women and girls throughout the world. Help women gain an equal voice everywhere on earth. The stronger women become, the weaker orthodox Islam becomes. The effort to enfranchise and give power to women directly neutralizes and nullifies orthodox Islam. Go to the Girl Effect website and get involved. Recruit your friends and family into the cause. This is a purpose we can all get behind. Join the Girl Effect on FaceBook to get updates.

In our quest to spread women's rights around the world, we will utterly undermine orthodox Islam, weakening, out-dating and marginalizing it, until it no longer presents a threat to the march of freedom. We will win because free women and free men can accomplish more than dominant men who force their women to submit.

Thursday

We've got several petitions to stop Muslim immigration to various countries. See them here. But a reader and active counterjihadist sent the following email asking for a petition for Japan, which we have since created. He is a scientist who travels extensively and speaks many languages:

A tiny seed grows into a mighty oak; a rotten seed grows into a giant Demon of Islam. Currently in Japan there are Islamic groups. There are native Japanese who have reverted (lol) to Islam (you see, the Islamists start with the premise that everyone is Muslim and that they have strayed away and that they are really not converts but revert...talk about the gall of supremacism).

It is happening in other places too. Some of the local Islamist goons are passing out cards to unsuspecting naive Hispanics inviting them to revert to Islam, the cards bear the picture of the Sphinx and pyramid of Egypt, as if Islam has anything to do with those ancient mysteries, built by an antediluvian advanced civilization and another humanity before ours. In fact it was a fanatical Islamic ruler in Egypt who tried to deface the face of the Sphinx, leaving us with the quintessential scarring on the enigmatic face of the Sphinx!

Sorry, I digress, but back to Japan...the native converted Japanese are of a particularly aggressive strain, they see in Islam a facsimile of the Bushido, the samurai blind obedience essence which somehow appeals to the tribal instinct of this genre of Japanese youths. IMHO, I think these Islamized Japanese pose a danger in that they may succeed in starting a sort of wildfire conversion rage among the disenchanted or disaffected Japanese population. Japan is a rather tribal society behind all that facade of modernity, Shinto and Buddhism will still prevail, but as some sociologist once said, you only need a small % ..2 or 3 % ? of a society who are aggressive and determined to change the the society either into something good or something evil. In pre-Hitler Germany, many Germans were scoffing at the nationalistische arbeiterspartei and thought Hitler was a kook, but once the determined Nazis seized power the rest of Germany had to follow the pied piper, if not just to survive!

Islam is a global threat period. Currently though not on the radar, there is much Islamic activity in South America, what with years of unfettered Islamic immigration into those countries coupled with corrupt governments and sometimes grinding poverty and disenchantment with Catholicism, etc. That continent is just ripe for the Jihadists' picking. Lately a Muslim managed to fannagle his way into becoming the president of Belize, there was a mighty influx of Muslim immigration, etc. into that country. Brazil is another hotbed for Jihadist organizations, and of course Venezuela's idiotic Hugo Chavez is flirting with the fascist Iranians and other unsavory Islamist groups.

Wherever muslims immigrate they carry the seed of destruction with them. Our extremely idiotic and ignorant news media like Newsweek were showcasing this wonderful refugee from Iraq who settled into an Oregon small town community, which soon attracted more Iraqi refugees who then of course have to have the locals help them build a mosque (gasp!) and that wonderful Mr. refugee who had just escaped hell under Islam in Iraq is now suddenly organizing a Muslim organization and is serving as the new mosques' Imam.

.Okay, I would like to ask the question, if he is the Imam and is practicing Islam, is he beholden to the laws and commandments of Islam or to the laws and regulations of his new found host country /adopted country, the USA? Islam is unlike other religions...you can't just render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and render unto God what is due God (like in Christianity), or Hindus who practice their spirituality and divorce their spiritual activities from politics and secular laws...they don't subscribe to the laws of Manu! In other words, since Islam is a political religion and if he is the Imam of his new mosque, then unless he is practicing a new strain of Islam, I don't know how in the hell he can reconcile the seditious tenets of his religion with the democratic and secular laws of his new found country? Anyone care to comment on this? This is being repeated countless times all over the heartlands of America, and one of the culprits are the liberal churches who are organizing the importation of all these Islamist refugees into this country and creating more and more potential jihadist hotspots all in the heartlands of America!

Saturday

Someone has graciously created a discussion forum for people who have accepted the challenge to inform their fellow non-Muslims about the disturbing nature of Islamic doctrine. You can find the forum here:

Awhile ago, we published a letter by Imran Firasat, an ex-Muslim from Spain. He just wrote us another letter:

Dear Citizen Warrior,

Imran Firasat

A very good day to you. This is Imran Firasat from Spain. On 17th of August there was news published on your courageous site with the title “UK Muslims Call for a Political Jihad Against Imran Firasat”. That news was an example of how intolerant, violent and aggressive Muslims have become by following Muhammad´s falsely created full-of-blood religion.

Today I come back to you with some latest movements related to the same matter. After I got the political Jihad threat from the Islamic group “Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK” based in United Kingdom, I had two options: Give up on my war against Islam or respond back more strongly to those Muslims in order to make them realize that we ex-Muslims are better people than they are, not cowards, and are capable of attacking back those who hurt us unnecessarily.

Today I had an appointment with the diplomats of the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Madrid, Spain. I have formally lodged an official complaint in the British Embassy against “Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK” which will be forwarded to the British police and all the relevant agencies of UK. I have explained to the UK authorities that how this Muslim group based in UK is fomenting hate speech, provoking the Muslims for fighting in the name of religion and spreading jihad messages into the society.

Through my complaint, I have asked the British authorities to declare this group a terrorist organization and ban it immediately as its acts should be considered serious crimes under the European and UK´s anti-terrorism law. The British diplomats have promised me that they are going to have a serious look at this complaint and the necessary actions will be taken as soon as possible. On the other hand the Spanish police are also studying this case and if they find this Islamic group guilty of committing crimes of hate speech and spreading terrorism in Europe, then this group will be declared a terrorist organization under the Spanish law, and its representatives will never be allowed to enter in the Spanish territory.

The intention behind submitting this complaint to the UK authorities is to respond back to the violent Muslims and leave a message to them that it is not anymore 2001. We are in 2012, much stronger, united and have woken up against the Islamic illusion and injustice. We are not going to tolerate any more their threats or violent acts. We will fight back but never in a violent way like them, in contrary we´ll adopt the legal measures, because we believe in law and order. They attack on us, we will kick them back. We are not cowardly, poor and illiterate people. We are modern, highly-educated, peace-loving and brave people who will take this fight until end in order to expose Muhammad and Islam´s false doctrine to the world. We are not afraid of Islamic violence anymore. We are desperate to free this world from Islam.

With this message I attach the scanning of a copy of the documents submitted to the British officials in Madrid, stamped by them as acknowledgement of receiving my complaint.

Index for the Quran

Chronological Order

If you have a traditional Qur'an, get a PDF document to help you read the chapters in the order they were revealed rather than the traditional order (which is the longest to the shortest chapter): Click here.

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Use this very informative and economical leaflet to help educate your fellow non-Muslims about Islam. Click here to read about the idea and get links to the PDF downloads.

Pamphlets and Leaflets

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Brochure About Islam

This is a full color PDF document to print a two-sided brochure about basic information on Islam:

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Take the Pledge

Some people say Islam is a religion of peace and that Islam has been hijacked by extremists, terrorists, and stealth jihadists who twist and distort the peaceful teachings of the Quran and quote it out of context.

Others say that political, supremacist, and even violent teachings are fundamental to Islam, and that people who say otherwise either haven’t read the Quran or are protecting Islam with religious deception (taqiyya).

The general confusion about the nature of Islam makes us collectively unable to make informed decisions. You can help end this confusion by reading the Quran. Stop believing what other people say and find out for yourself.

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It illustrates the Islamic Supremacist vision by showing the similarity between what happened in the movie, Pleasantville, and what devout fundamentalist Muslims are trying to create in Islamic states like Syria, Pakistan, or Saudi Arabia (and ultimately everywhere in the world).